West German social history is full of narratives about German suffering at the hands of the Nazis and the allied forces.
But as has often happened in the long history of the Franco-German relationship, compromise emerged.
The original function of the building had been forgotten for centuries, but it is now fascinatingly restored and offers a tragic insight into the darker side of German history.
Another design, from Daniel Liebeskind, features a 141-metre (154-yard) long broken wall which directs the eyes of visitors towards the Tiergarten park and a monument to Goethe, so inviting them to reflect on the highs and lows of German history.
But analysts believe Ms. Merkel and Mr. Hollande will find some common ground, pointing to the long history of compromise in the Franco-German relationship, often between leaders of differing political colors.
Also with Kenneth Branagh and, as the least plausible German general in the history of warfare, Eddie Izzard.
But there has also been no officially sanctioned equivalent of the Franco-German history textbook commission that, soon after 1945, assembled scholars to try to agree on a common account of the two countries' bitter history.
Dedicated to Lorenzo de Medici, the book draws on examples from history, of Alexander the Great and of the German city states, to teach its readers some eternal lessons.
Recent history indicates it would be foolhardy to bank the acquiescence of German parliamentarians in advance of the fact.
The first is that the history of the European Union suggests that a powerful Franco-German axis is hard to resist for ever.
Chancellor Angela Merkel boosted Germany's already repressive VAT almost 20%--the biggest tax increase in German postwar history--as a means of balancing the budget.
Armin Heinen, professor of history at Aachen's university, says modern German identity was built on reconciliation with the French Erbfeind, or hereditary enemy.
And if we look at the names that loom large in American history, Frederick Steuben, but many leading leaders of the German -- of the American business community, Guggenheim, Steinway, Strauss, Singer -- all of these German names.
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"Anyone who was in Istanbul knows they saw one of the greatest matches in European Cup history, " said the German.
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According to Frank Ulrich Montgomery, head of the German Medical Association, the irregularities are now "history" because supervision has been tightened.
"Go back and read history of the Algerian war and the French, " Mr. Kerry told the German students in Berlin on Tuesday.
Montblanc, the German company with its own 106-year history as a manufacturer of luxury writing instruments, not only bought into the legacy of Minvera, but in some cases expanded upon it.
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He also wrote extensively about almost everything else: history, diplomacy, French literature, German literature (in this case, on the lack of it), religion, philosophy and the practical arts of government (in which he himself excelled).
In the old part of town, near the Pangani River, a few buildings from the German colonial era and old houses of Indian traders bear cobwebbed witness to this part of history.
Now consider, if I have some pride in being Texan, with less than 200 years of history, proud as it is, what is it like to be Greek or Irish or French or German or any of the European mix?
The issue was parked by a joint Czech-German declaration in 1997, in which the two countries agreed to disagree about this aspect of their history.
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